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Hyperthermia and low dose rate irradiation.
Radioisotope brachytherapy. ; Cancer -- Radiotherapy.
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Scalable high-performance 3-D polygon rendering.
Computer graphics. ; Computer architecture. ; Image processing -- Digital techniques.
Computer generated 3-D images are proving useful in a wide variety of applications including data visualization, computer animation, virtual reality, telepresence and terrain generation. High-end applications in these fields require images to be...
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Geology and geochemistry of the El Laco magnetite deposits, Chile.
Magnetite -- Chile -- El Laco. ; Formations (Geology) -- Chile -- El Laco.
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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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The synthesis and chemistry of novel cyclic perfluoromethyl-substituted molecules.
Fluorine compounds.
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Identification and characterization of signaling pathways underlying the tumorigenic activity of [Delta]Np63[alpha] in breast cancer stem cells / by Amanda Lynn Balboni.
Studies presented in this dissertation focus on the transcriptional targets and cellular functions of [Delta]Np63[alpha], the predominant TP63 isoform expressed in epithelial stem cell compartments. TP63, a member of the p53 family of...
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Efficient design and implementation of permutation algorithms on the memory hierarchy.
Computer algorithms. Permutations. Memory hierarchy (Computer science). Computer programming.
For many scientific applications, the data set cannot entirely fit in main memory. The data must reside out-of-core, i.e., on parallel disks. For many basic data-movement operations such as permuting, if the programmer does not design efficient...
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Reactor design considerations for the conversion of particulate biomass to ethanol.
Bioreactors -- Design and construction. Alcohol as fuel. Biomass energy.
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Nd, Sr and O isotopic study of midcrustal granitoid petrogenesis within the Acadian central Maine terrane.
Petrology -- Maine. Granite -- Maine. Isotope geology -- Maine.
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Iron and iron chromium alloy--silica reaction studies.
Alloys. Chemical reactions.
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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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Hydrothermal pretreatment of cellulosic biomass for bioconversion to ethanol.
Alcohol as fuel. ; Cellulose -- Biotechnology. ; Hot water. ; Steam. ; Biomass energy.
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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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Part I, Synthesis of potentially Möbius aromatic heterocycles; part II, The perfluorotropylium.
Heterocyclic compounds. ; Aromatic compounds -- Synthesis. ; Fluorine compounds. ; Ionization.
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Enhanced attribution for networked copyright management.
Copyright and electronic data processing. ; Copyright -- Computer programs. ; Multimedia systems. ; Wide area networks (Computer networks). ; Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
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Biophysical analysis of the role of γc in the assembly of the interleukin-2 receptor.
Interleukin-2. ; T cells -- Receptors. ; Structure-activity relationships (Biochemistry). ; Biophysics.
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The design of a particleboard plant for West Africa.
Forest products industry -- Africa, West.
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Pre-clinical evaluation of the novel synthetic triterpenoid CDDO-imidazolide.
Triterpenoid saponins -- Physiological effect. ; Triterpenoid saponins -- Mechanism of action. ; Triterpenoid saponins -- Therapeutic use. ; Imidazoles. ; Cancer cells -- Growth -- Regulation.
1[2-Cyano-3,12-dioxooleana-1,9(11)-dien-28-oyl]imidazole (CDDO-lm) is a novel synthetic triterpenoid superior to its parent compound, 2-cyano-3, 12-dioxooleana-1,9(11)-dien-28-oic acid (CDDO), both in vitro and in vivo. CDDO-Im is highly active in...
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Consolidated bioprocessing and liquid hot water pretreatment for the production of ethanol from cellulosic substrates.
Cellulose -- Biotechnology. ; Alcohol as fuel. ; Compressed water.
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Testing stellar evolution models with globular clusters.
Stars -- Globular clusters. Stars -- Evolution. Astronomical photometry.
I present new wide-field photometry of several globular clusters including: BVI ground-based photometry and VI space-based photometry for the globular cluster M92 (NGC 6341) BVI photometry for M2 (NGC 7089), M3 (NGC 5272), and M14 (NGC 6402) and...
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Simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation of paper sludge.
Cellulose -- Biodegradation. Zymomonas mobilis -- Biotechnology. Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- Biotechnology. Fermentation. Hydrolysis. Biomass conversion -- Mathematical models.
Production of fuel ethanol from cellulosic materials is a potentially attractive way to meet sustainability, energy security, and environmental goals. However, the high cost of processing using current technology has thus far prevented...
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Examining functional variation in oncogene biology : the role of somatic mutations and germline variation on c-Myc and c-Myb / by Scott Andrew Turner.
The identification and characterization of functional genetic variation is essential for future advances in molecular diagnostics, pharmacogenomics, and personalized medicine. Recent attempts at identifying nucleotide level variation (somatic...
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Secure collaboration in an open environment.
Internet -- Security measures. Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Digital signatures. Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) -- Security measures.
The Internet has become a virtual place where people not only operate in isolation but also interact with other Internet users. Collaborative systems are becoming more popular. Applications now being introduced could provide better remote education...
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Development of an apparatus for simultaneous trapping of ⁶Li-⁸⁷Rb Fermi-Bose mixtures.
Trapped ions -- Instruments. Magnetooptical devices -- Design and construction. Atoms -- Cooling. Lithium ions. Rubidium -- Isotopes.
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Optical constants of ZnS and ZnS:Mn thin films from 1.5 eV to 3.2 eV as determined by transverse photothermal deflection spectroscopy.
Thin films -- Optical properties. Zinc sulfide -- Spectra.
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Automatic test pattern generation techniques for built-in self-test of digital circuits.
Digital integrated circuits -- Testing. Digital integrated circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. Digital integrated circuits -- Design and construction.
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Implementation, characterization, and applications of a scanning Kelvin probe force microscope.
Scanning force microscopy. Scanning electron microscopes -- Design and construction. Semiconductors -- Analysis.
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Surface temperature at the contact interface of sliding systems.
Tribology. Temperature measurements.
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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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The chemistry of clay minerals associated with evaporites in New York and Utah.
Clay minerals -- Composition. Chlorites. Evaporites -- New York (State). Evaporites -- Utah.
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The adaptation of a potential function controller for control of a dynamic multi-robot system.
Robots -- Control systems -- Design and construction. Mobile robots. Robots -- Dynamics.
This thesis examines the issues of vehicle and information dynamics in the control of a multi-robot system using a radial-basis potential function controller. Distributed control of multi-robot systems requires each robot to communicate state...
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Cholesterol metabolism and human diseases
Cholesterol -- Metabolism. ; ATP-binding cassette transporters. ; Niemann-Pick diseases -- Genetic aspects. ; Acyltransferases. ; Pregnenolone. ; Sterols. ; Acetyl-CoA C-Acetyltransferase.
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Microwave tomographic imaging using dielectric contrast in temperature and tissue content
Breast -- Cancer -- Tomography. ; Breast -- Cancer -- Imaging. ; Microwave imaging in medicine. ; Breast -- Electric properties. ; Breast Neoplasms -- diagnosis. ; Diagnostic Imaging -- methods.
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Approaches to the synthesis of a helically-conjugated molecule.
Molecular orbitals.
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Low temperature properties of germanium, silicon and carbon with application to bolometry
Germanium. ; Silicon. ; Carbon.
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Structural and compositional aspects of low-grade metamorphic chlorite.
Chlorites. Metamorphism (Geology). ; Clay -- Analysis -- Maine. ; Clay -- Analysis -- Pennsylvania.
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Detecting, characterizing and interpreting Gene-Gene interactions associated with metabolic traits / Rishika De
The ubiquitous complexity of common diseases is one of the biggest challenges facing the field of personalized treatments and precision medicine. This complexity can be attributed to various sources such as the genetic make-up of an individual,...
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Design of a magnetic field compatible, high-performance optical breast imaging system for MRI-guided optical spectroscopy / by Fadi El-Ghussein
Multimodality imaging is becoming the standard of care for research and clinical studies. Such an approach is able to provide complementary information which can detect and characterize tumors. Advancing instrumentation for diffuse near-infrared...
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Microwave imaging spectroscopy for breast cancer diagnosis.
Microwave spectroscopy. Imaging systems -- Design and construction. Diagnostic imaging -- Digital techniques. Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis. Microwave imaging in medicine.
Microwave spectroscopy has been investigated as a possible modality for breast imaging because of the significant contrast in electrical properties between normal and malignant tissue over the microwave spectrum. A liquid-coupled, non-contacting...
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Securing operating systems through utility virtual machines / by Robert Denz
The advent of hypervisors revolutionized the computing industry in terms of malware prevention and detection, secure virtual machine managers, and cloud resilience. However, this has resulted in a disjointed response to handling known threats...
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Sounding-rocket studies of Langmuir-wave microphysics in the auroral ionosphere / by Micah P. Dombrowski
Since their discovery in laboratory plasmas in the 1920s, Langmuir waves have been observed to be ubiquitous in plasma environments, particularly in space plasmas. From the greater solar wind to planetary foreshocks and the auroral ionosphere,...
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Superconducting single electron transistor for charge sensing in Si/SiGe-based quantum dots / by Zhen Yang
Si-based quantum devices, including Si/SiGe quantum dots (QD), are promising candidates for spin-based quantum bits (quits), which are a potential platform for quantum information processing [1]. Meanwhile, qubit readout remains a challenging task...
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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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Discovering MII1 regulated pathways in hematopoietic stem cells.
Hematopoietic stem cells. ; Hematopoietic stem cell disorders -- Genetic aspects. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Leukemia -- Genetic aspects. ; Cell proliferation. ; Myeloid-Lymphoid Leukemia Protein -- genetics.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) balance self-renewal with the continuous production of the suitable numbers of lineage-restricted progenitor cells. In this work we demonstrate that the Mixed lineage leukemia 1 (Mll1) gene is essential for this...
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