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- Higher order Whitehead products.
- Homotopy theory. ; Topology.
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- Higher homotopy associativity of H-maps.
- H-spaces. ; Homotopy theory.
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- Stable matchings: complexity and structures.
- Marriage theorem.
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- Reward and self-regulation in online digital environments.
- Reward (Psychology). ; Self-control. ; Internet addiction -- Physiological aspects. ; Behavior Addictive -- pathophysiology.
- The motivational and rewarding properties of our immediate environment affect how humans interact with our world in a number of ways. One important aspect in which reward representation shapes behavior is in the development, maintenance and...
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- Regulation of CD8+ T cell immunity by retinoic acid / by Yanxia Guo.
- Studies have implicated the essential role of Vitamin A (VA) and its active metobolite, retinoic acid (RA) in both host defense and tolerance through manipulation of various immune cells, including T cells, B cells, macrophages and others. CD8⁺ T...
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- 5-AMINOLEVULINIC-INDUCED PROTOPORPHYRIN.
- Brain tumors account for ~2% of all cancers, with gliomas accounting for ~70% of all brain tumors. Evidence suggests that extent of resection provides both a quality of life and survival benefit to patients. Recent work has shown the utility of...
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- Computational aspect of tomographic microwave imaging for biomedical applications
- Microwave imaging (MI) is based on recovering dielectric properties (permittivity and conductivity) of materials. Over the last two decades, MI has attracted increasing interests in biomedical applications, in particular, for breast cancer...
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- Crevasse detection in ice sheets using ground penetrating radar and machine learning / by Rebecca M. Williams.
- The purpose of this thesis is to describe methods for detecting hidden crevasses on glaciers in Polar regions. Crevasses form in ice sheets as a result of forces imposed upon the brittle ice. The crevasses are hidden from view by bridges of soft...
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- A dynamically refocusable sampling infrastructure for 802.11 networks.
- Telecommunication -- Traffic -- Measurement -- Statistical methods. IEEE 802.11 (Standard). Universities and colleges -- Computer networks -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- Case studies.
- The edge of the Internet is increasingly wireless. Enterprises large and small, homeowners, and even whole cities have deployed Wi-Fi networks for their users, and many users never need to--or never bother to--use the wired network. With the advent...
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- Perceptual filling-in involves feature mixing, but not feature replacement.
- Form perception. ; Visual perception. ; Motion perception (Vision). ; Color vision. ; Visual cortex -- Psychophysiology.
- Visual filling-in occurs when a retinally stabilized object undergoes perceptual fading. It is commonly believed that information about the apparently vanished object is lost and replaced solely by information arising from the surrounding...
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- Geology and paleomagnetics of three old red sandstone basins: Spitsbergen, Norway and Scotland.
- Paleomagnetism -- Norway. ; Paleomagnetism -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Paleomagnetism -- Scotland. ; Sandstone -- Norway. ; Sandstone -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Sandstone -- Scotland.
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- Bridging the adaptive and innate immune system: A study on mast cells and the regulation of tumor immunity.
- Mast cells -- Immunology. Tumors -- Immunological aspects. Immune response -- Regulation.
- Traditionally, mast cells have been studied for their role as proinflammatory effector cells in allergic disorders. Recent findings however have opened up the discussion in the community of immunologists regarding MCs should be considered as...
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- Searching for a hijacked epoxide: structural, mechanisitic, and functional characterization of Cif, a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes a protein that triggers the accelerated degradation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in airway epithelial cells. This protein, known as the CFTR inhibitory...
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- Multiple element intraoperative ultrasound hyperthermia system.
- Operative ultrasonography -- Instruments. ; Cancer -- Thermotherapy -- Instruments.
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- The design of a particleboard plant for West Africa.
- Forest products industry -- Africa, West.
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- The influence of habitat heterogeneity on variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities.
- Freshwater invertebrates -- Ecology. Stream animals -- Ecology. Benthic animals -- Ecology. Ecological heterogeneity. Stream ecology -- New Hampshire. Animal communities.
- Spatial heterogeneity inherent in ecological systems impacts both diversity and community structure. However, little is known about the influence of habitat heterogeneity on temporal variability in communities. I performed several studies to...
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- The Zn-Baxter model.
- Statistical mechanics.
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- The upland forest vegetation of the Second College Grant, New Hampshire.
- Trees -- New Hampshire. ; Forest ecology -- New Hampshire.
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- Color centers and thermoluminescence in LiF.
- Thermoluminescence. Lithium fluoride.
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- Applications of the exterior algebra to graphs and linear codes.
- Hypergraphs.
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- Pressure dependence of F-center hyperfine-interactions.
- Electron paramagnetic resonance. ; Color centers. ; Deuterides.
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- Studies on the mechanism of insulin stimulation of glucose transport in the rat adipocyte.
- Cellular control mechanisms. ; Cell physiology. ; Fat.
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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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- Physiology and kinetics of cellulose fermentation by Clostridium thermocellum / by Evert K. Holwerda
- Cellulolytic microorganisms hold promise for industrially applied microbial cellulose utilization in the generation biofuels from renewable resources. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), a one-step process combining cellulase production, cellulose...
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- Sounding rocket based investigations of HF waves in the auroral ionosphere.
- Ionospheric radio wave propagation -- Observations. ; Auroras -- Alaska -- Observations. ; Sounding rockets -- Observations.
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- Multiphoton induced chemistry.
- Multiphoton processes.
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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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- Ground and space observations of medium frequency auroral radio emissions / by Matthew C. Broughton.
- The auroral zone is a rich source of natural radio emissions that can be observed in space and at ground-level. By studying these waves, scientists can gain insight into the plasma processes that generate them and use the near-Earth space...
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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...
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- $Isolation and characterization of a cortical secretory vesicle membrane fraction.$
- Isolation and characterization of a cortical secretory vesicle membrane fraction.
- Cell membranes. ; Membrane fusion. ; Membrane proteins.
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- The contribution of vaginocervical input on the reinforcing aspects of mating in female rats.
- Rats -- Behavior. Sexual behavior in animals. Vagina -- Psychophysiology. Cervix uteri -- Psychophysiology.
- The present dissertation examined the contributions of vaginal and cervical stimulation to sexual motivation and reward in female rats. New, more complex behavioral methods such as the display of paced mating behavior and the induction of a...
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- Rabbit genomic clones for synovial fibroblast collagenase: tools for understanding connective tissue disease.
- Collagenases. ; Fibroblasts. ; Connective tissues -- Diseases -- Genetic aspects. ; Clone cells. ; Rabbits.
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- The role of p53 in retinoic acid-induced differentiation of human germ cell tumors.
- p53 antioncogene -- Regulation. ; Retinoids -- Physiological effect. ; Retinoids -- Receptors. ; Cell differentiation -- Molecular aspects. ; Genetic transcription -- Regulation. ; Germ cells -- Tumors. ; Receptors.
- The retinoids exert potent growth and differentiation effects on normal, embryonic and neoplastic cells. Although retinoids are known to regulate gene transcription through activation of retinoid receptors, the direct target genes of retinoid...
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- Tools for studying Drosophila snRNAs: gene cloning and liposome fusion.
- Drosophila. ; RNA.
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- Substorm-related VLF chorus events: local-time dependence and relationship to newly-injected clouds of drifting energetic electrons.
- VLF emissions. ; Dawn chorus (Radio meteorology) Magnetospheric substorms.
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- Chemical ecology : bacterial phenazines as toxins and paracrine signals in Candida albicans / by Diana K. Morales Gamba.
- Supernovae -- Observations.;""Supernova remnants -- Observations."";""Supernovae -- Spectra.""
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- Spectral analysis of moderate length time series.
- Time-series analysis. Spectral theory (Mathematics).
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- Virulence and motility gene regulation in Vibrio cholerae.
- Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. DNA-binding proteins. Genetic transcription -- Regulation. Promoters (Genetics)
- The ctx and tcp genes that encode cholera toxin and the toxin co-regulated pilus, the major virulence determinants of Vibrio cholerae, are repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS and activated by the AraC-like transcriptional regulator...
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- Laying a solid foundation for Manhattan : 'setting the functional basis for the post-GWAS era' / by Xiaoyang Zhang
- Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 8,900 genetic variants, mainly single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), associated with hundreds of human traits and diseases, which define risk-associated loci (Hindorff et al., 2012 ...
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- Synthetic studies on viridin class of furanosteroids.
- The furanosteroids are a special class of natural products that feature a furan ring fused to the steroid nucleus at C-4 and C-6. In 1945, viridin, the parent member of this group, was isolated by Grove and coworkers from the fungas Gliocladium...
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- Cholesterol trafficking and the etiology of NPC disease.
- Cholesterol -- Physiological transport. ; Cholesterol -- Genetic aspects. ; Purkinje cells. ; Neurogenetics. ; Neimann-Pick Diseases -- etiology.
- Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease is a fatal autosomal recessive pediatric neurovisceral disorder characterized clinically by progressive neurodegeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) and hepatosplenomegaly. Biochemically, it is...
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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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- Conservation and evolution of DNA regulatory signal patterns
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- Temporal variability in the abundance and species composition of forest hervibores.
- Forest ecology -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Lepidoptera -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Forest insects -- New Hampshire -- Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Insect populations -- New Hampshire --...
- One of the principle aims of ecology is to understand variations in organism abundance over time. Some species and species assemblages exhibit exceptionally dynamic changes in abundance or biomass, while other species and species assemblages are...
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- Isolation and characterization of Chinese hamster ovary cell lines possessing abnormal LDL-derived cholesterol trafficking.
- Cholesterol. ; Mutation (Biology). ; Low density lipoproteins. ; Cell lines.
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- Explaining hospital costs and utilization in the nationwide inpatient sample
- A fuller understanding of cost and utilization, per discharge and for all-payers, is needed at the hospital level. I conducted three studies to address this need. In study 1, I examine the amount of variation in costs and LOS per discharge that can...
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- Competition in natural Cladoceran communities : experimental manipulations and demographic analysis.
- Cladocera. ; Competition (Biology).
- Large-scale (12,000 liter) and small-scale (3.78 liter) field enclosure experiments were conducted to evaluate the intensity and nature of competition among the planktonic cladoceran grazers of a mesotrophic Vermont lake: Bosmina longirostris,...
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- Soil biogeochemistry in temperate and arctic ecosystems : human disturbances to a critical carbon pool / by Chelsea L. Petrenko
- I investigated the effects of two contemporary disturbances to soil systems: forest clearing in the northeastern U.S. and climate-driven plant succession in the Arctic. To test the effects of clear-cutting forests on mineral soil carbon (C)...
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- An optical search for supernova remnants in nearby spiral galaxies.
- Supernova remnants. ; Spiral galaxies -- Optical properties. ; Optical detectors.
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- Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia as an adjuvant cancer therapy with chemotherapy / by Alicia Ailie Petryk.
- Magnetic nanoparticle-based hyperthermia for cancer treatment is a promising technology, particularly when applied as part of an adjuvant strategy with established cancer therapies (chemotherapy, radiation and surgery). In Europe, early clinical...
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